Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

Alexandria, Sept. 11.
For the Alexandria Advertiser.
Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog.
At this season of the year, and more particularly during the present drought, it may be expected that the canine species will be very subject to the hydrophobia.
The following receipt has been found in Europe, an antidote to this dreadful poison. It is given on the authority of Sir George Cobb, who brought it from Tonquin, and is reported, in most cases, to be infallible.
"Take twenty four grains of native cinnabar, the like quantity of factitious cinnabar, and fifteen grains of musk.
Grind these together into a very fine powder, and put it into a small tea cup of arrack, rum or brandy: let it be well mixed, and give it to the person bit, as soon as possible—a second dose of the same must be repeated thirty days afterwards, and a third may be taken in thirty days more. But if symptoms of madness appear, they must take one of the above doses immediately, and a second in an hour after; and if wanted, a third must be given a few hours afterwards. The above receipt is calculated, for a full grown person, to children smaller doses, in proportion to their ages. This medicine has been given to hundreds with success. If, in the madness, they cannot take it in liquid, make it up into a bolus with honey: after the first two doses, let it be repeated every three or four hours, till the patient be recovered."